Nick Pompa, founder of Lootlock — an app that prevents kids from running up unauthorized gaming bills on their parents’ credit cards — is an avid gamer and software developer working in fintech.

As a dad of two under two, he’s looking forward to sharing his passion for gaming with his kids when they grow old enough to play. He started gaming at age 6, he told TechCrunch. Lootlock was selected for TechCrunch’s 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 and will be exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt , October 27 to 29 in San Francisco.

As he gabbed about gaming with other parents, or simply read the news, he kept hearing horror stories of kids shackling their parents with surprise credit card bills , sometimes unwittingly running up thousands of dollars .

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